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Lamentations 1

Lam. 1:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
remembered
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
in the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of her affliction
`oniy (Hebrew #6040)
from 6031; depression, i.e. misery: --afflicted(-ion), trouble.
Pronounce: on-ee'
and of her miseries
maruwd (Hebrew #4788)
an outcast; (abstractly) destitution
KJV usage: cast out, misery.
Pronounce: maw-rood'
Origin: from 7300 in the sense of maltreatment
all her βpleasant things
machmud (Hebrew #4262)
from 2530; desired; hence, a valuable
KJV usage: pleasant thing.
Pronounce: makh-mood'
Origin: or machmuwd {makh-mood'}
that she had in the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of old
qedem (Hebrew #6924)
from 6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Pronounce: keh'-dem
Origin: or qedmah {kayd'-maw}
, when her people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
fell
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
into the hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
of the enemy
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
, and none did help
`azar (Hebrew #5826)
to surround, i.e. protect or aid
KJV usage: help, succour.
Pronounce: aw-zar'
Origin: a primitive root
her: the adversaries
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
saw
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
her, and did mock
sachaq (Hebrew #7832)
to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play
KJV usage: deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mock(-er), play, rejoice, (laugh to) scorn, be in (make) sport.
Pronounce: saw-khak'
Origin: a primitive root
h at her sabbaths
mishbath (Hebrew #4868)
cessation, i.e. destruction
KJV usage: sabbath.
Pronounce: mish-bawth'
Origin: from 7673
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or, desirable,
Lam. 1:10• 10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her precious things; for she hath seen the nations enter into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. (Lam. 1:10)
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Psa. 137:3• 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. (Psa. 137:3)

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remembered.
Job 29:2‑25• 2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
 3When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
 4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
 5When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
 6When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! …
 7When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
 8The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;
 9Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
 10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
 11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
 12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
 13The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
 16I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
 17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
 18And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
 19My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
 20My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
 21Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
 22After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
 23And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
 24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
 25I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners. (Job 29:2‑25)
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Job 30:1• 1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. (Job 30:1)
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Psa. 42:4• 4These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude. (Psa. 42:4)
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Psa. 77:3,5‑9• 3I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
 5I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times.
 6I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search.
 7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
 8Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?
 9Hath *God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:3,5‑9)
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Hos. 2:7• 7And she shall pursue after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, and shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now. (Hos. 2:7)
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Luke 15:17• 17And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine. (Luke 15:17)
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Luke 16:25• 25But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering. (Luke 16:25)
all her.
Deut. 4:7‑8,34‑37• 7For what great nation is there that hath God near to them as Jehovah our God is in everything we call upon him for?
 8And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances, as all this law which I set before you this day?
 34Or hath God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a powerful hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
 35Unto thee it was shewn, that thou mightest know that Jehovah, he is God--there is none other besides him.
 36From the heavens he made thee hear his voice, that he might instruct thee; and on the earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire.
 37And because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, he brought thee out with his countenance, with his great power, out of Egypt, (Deut. 4:7‑8,34‑37)
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Deut. 8:7‑9• 7For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of water-brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills;
 8a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
 9a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, where thou shalt lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper. (Deut. 8:7‑9)
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Psa. 147:19‑20• 19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
 20He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah! (Psa. 147:19‑20)
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Isa. 5:1‑4• 1I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.
 2And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
 3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
 4What was there yet to do to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?-- (Isa. 5:1‑4)
pleasant.
or, desirable.
Lam. 1:10• 10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her precious things; for she hath seen the nations enter into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. (Lam. 1:10)
the adversaries.
Lam. 2:15‑16• 15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
 16All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen it. (Lam. 2:15‑16)
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Psa. 79:4• 4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 79:4)
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Psa. 137:3‑4• 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
 4How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil? (Psa. 137:3‑4)
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Mic. 4:11• 11And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be profaned, and let our eye look upon Zion. (Mic. 4:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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In the days of her affliction and of her wanderingsd, since her people fell intoe the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruinf.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "miseries." see ch. 3.19; Isa. 58.7.
e
Or "by."
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Or "cessation" or "days of rest," and see Lev. 26.43.